The three-stranded safety rope
What prevents us from stepping out for God, being able to be used by Him? Or stepping into the experience of the fullness of the Holy Spirit, for that matter? Fear – and its subsidiaries like anxiety and timidity. The enemy is activie in trying to prevent us from taking hold of what God is giving us, guiding us into or growing us in. He does it mainly through fear. That is why Paul said to his young assistant, Timothy, “God has not given you a spirit of fear, but of power, of love and of good judgement”. When we get those “O God help!” moments, that very expressions is like grabbing the rope that God has given us. As we grab love, we get power and vice versa, and at that point the confusion lifts and we can make a good call for Him. This is the three-stranded rope and it is powerful indeed. One little tug from us and the answering tug is there to lift us up. The message ends with a repentance and renunciation of fears, and a fresh impartation of the Spirit of Jesus, whose love conquered fear.

Sunday, February 14, 2010
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